Year 4 Home Learning Pack w/c 25/1/2021

These are ideas of things that you could have a go at completing each day:

· 20 minutes of reading you own book

· 20 minutes of times tables practice (Times Tables Rockstars or Hit the Button)

· 20 minutes of Spellings (Spelling Shed)

In addition, there are daily spellings to practise, 6 pieces of maths work, 3 pieces of writing work, 5 pieces of reading work and 5 pieces of topic work that you can complete during the week.

English Task 1 – Spelling:

Practise these words 5 times each on a piece of paper everyday: invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion, stagnation, nomination, migration, conservation, selection

These are the challenging words for this week to practice as well: heart, height, history

English Task 2 – Grammar - Determiner:

Identify the determiners by underlining them in the sentences below. Determiners are words that come before a noun to give the reader more information about it. You can use the word bank below to help you if you need it.

For example: The Queen was sitting on her throne.

These chairs are the only ones left.

There were ten sweets in the box.

my

the

a

an

this

those

which

these

that

her

his

those

our

their

my

your

some

few

five

more

many

any

less

Challenge: Can you write some sentences of your own using determiners?

English Task 3 – Grammar – Prepositions and prepositional phrases:

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else.

English Task 4 – Creative Writing

Can you write a story based on this image? Can you use ambitious vocabulary to describe what you would see, hear, think or feel?

Reading:

There are 5 different reading comprehension tasks for you to have a go at daily. Make sure you read the text first and then answer the questions on a piece of paper.

Monday - How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 4 p60-63

‘HA HA HA HA!’ Snotlout was laughing so hard that he hadn’t managed to say anything at all. The boys were hanging about the village gates taking the opportunity to show off the dragons that they had caught. Hiccup had tried to walk through without being noticed, but Snotlout had stopped him.

‘Let’s see what pathetic creature Hiccup has got,’ said Snotlout, and took off the lid. ‘Oh, this is BRILLIANT – LOOK AT IT!’ SAID Snotlout, when he finally got his breath back from laughing. ‘What IS it, Hiccup? An ickle brown bunny rabbit with wings? A flower fairy? A fluffy flying frog? Gather round everybody and see the magnificent animal that Our Future Leader has caught himself!’

‘Oh, Hiccup, you are useless,’ crowed Speedifist. ‘You’re the son of a CHIEF, for Thor’s sake. Why didn’t you get one of those new Monstrous Nightmares with the six-foot wing-span and the extra extendable claws? They’re really mean killers, they are.’

‘I have one,’ grinned Snotlout, gesturing to the terrifying-looking, flame red animal fast asleep in his basket. ‘I think I shall call her FIREWORM. What are you going to call yours, Hiccup? Sweetums? Sugarlips? Babyface?’ Hiccup’s dragon took this particular moment to give a huge yawn, opening his tiny mouth wide to reveal a flickering, forked tongue, very pink gums and ABSOLUTELY NO TEETH AT ALL.

Snotlout laughed so hard, Dogsbreath had to hold him upright. “TOOTHLESS!” cried Snotlout. ‘Hiccup has found himself the only TOOTHLESS dragon in the uncivilised world!’

Fishlegs leapt to Hiccup’s defence. ‘Well, you are not allowed that Monstrous Nightmare that you’ve got there, Snotface Snotlout. Only the son of a Chief is allowed a Monstrous Nightmare. That Firework dragon is Hiccup’s by right.’

Snotlout’s eyes narrowed. He grabbed Fishlegs’s arm and twisted it viciously behind his back. ‘Nobody’s listening to you, you plankton-hearted, fish-legged, disaster area,’ sneered Snotlout. ‘Thanks to you and your snivelling, sneezing disability, the whole military operation was nearly a total disaster. When I’m Chief of this Tribe the first thing I’m going to do is boot anybody with a pathetic allergy like yours straight into exile. You’re not fit to be a Hooligan!’

Fishlegs went very white in the face, but he still managed to gasp out, ‘But you are NOT going to be Chief of this Tribe. HICCUP is going to be the Chief of this Tribe.’

Snotlout dropped Fishlegs’s arm and advanced menacingly on Hiccup. ‘Oh, he is, is he?’ jeered Snotlout. ‘So, I’m not allowed that Monstrous Nightmare, am I? Our Future Leader is keeping very quiet about it, isn’t he? Come on, Hiccup, I’m stealing your inheritance. What are you going to do about it, then, eh?’

The boys all looked solemn. Snotlout really had broken and ancient Viking rule. ‘Hiccup should challenge you for the dragon,’ said Fishlegs slowly, and everybody swivelled round to look expectantly at Hiccup.

‘Oh, brilliant,’ muttered Hiccup under his breath. ‘Thank you, Fishlegs. My day just gets better and better,’

Snotlout was a great brute of a boy who didn’t really need Dogsbreath’s help when it came to bashing people up. He wore specially-constructed, bronze-tipped sandals in order to cause maximum damage when kicking people. Hiccup tried to stay out of his way as much as he possibly could.

1. Write down the phrases that Snotlout used to describe Hiccup’s dragon.

2. What dragon did Speedifist suggest that Hiccup should have got for himself, as he is the son of the Chief?

3. What is Snotlout going to call his dragon?

4. What names did Snotlout suggest for Hiccup’s dragon when he looked at it?

5. Why did Snotlout laugh so hard after the dragon yawned?

6. Who leapt forward to defend Hiccup?

7. Why did Fishlegs say that the Fireworks dragon is Hiccup’s right?

8. What did Snotlout say he was going to do when he becomes the Chief?

9. What ancient Viking rule did Snotlout break?

10. What suggestion did Fishlegs give to settle the fight for the Monstrous Nightmare?

Tuesday - How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 4 p64-73

But he couldn’t ignore this insult to his status, now Fishlegs had helpfully pointed it out, without looking like a coward in front of the other boys. And if you became known as a coward in the Hooligan Tribe, you might as well go the whole hog and wear a pale pink jerkin, take up playing the harp, and change your name to Ermintrude.

‘I challenge you, Snotface Snotlout, for the dragon, Fireworm, who is mine by right,’ said Hiccup, trying to hide his reluctance by speaking as loudly and formally a he could.

‘I accept your challenge’, said Snotlout superfast, grinning all over his horrid, smug face. ’Axes or fists?’

‘Fists,’ said Hiccup. Because axes were a REALLY bad idea.

‘I shall look forward to showing you how a real Future Hero fights,’ said Snotlout, and then he remembered something. ‘AFTER the Initiation thing on Thor’sday Thursday, though. I don’t want to stub my toe or anything while I’m kicking you all around the village.’

‘Hiccup might win,’ Fishlegs pointed out.

‘OF COURSE he won’t win.’ Boasted Snotlout.

‘Look at my sporting ability, my Viking courage, my capacity for mindless violence. I shall win just as surely as I shall be Chief of this tribe one day. I mean, look at my dragon and then look at HIS dragon. ‘He pointed mockingly at Toothless. ‘The gods have spoken. It’s only a matter of time.’ ‘In the meantime,’ Snotlout carried on, ‘I shall live in fear of being gummed to death by Hiccup’s terrifying, toothless terrapin.’ And Sontlout sauntered off in a lordly fashion, giving Hiccup a nasty kick on shins as he did so. ‘

Sorry about the challenge,’ Fishlegs apologised, after they had left the baskets with the dragons in them under their beds at their homes.

‘Oh, don’t worry about it,’ said Hiccup. ’Somebody would have got me to do it anyway. You know how they all love a fight.’ Fishlegs and Hiccup were going to the Great hall to look for the book Gobber had recommended: How to Train Your Dragon, by Professor Yobbish.

‘As it happens,’ confided Hiccup, ‘I know a bit about dragon already, but I haven’t the foggiest clue how to start training on. I would have said they were virtually untrainable. I’m really looking forward to getting some tips. The great hall was a hullabaloo of young barbarians fighting, yelling, and playing the popular Viking game of Bashyball, which was a very violent contact sport with lots of contact and very few rules.

Hiccup and Fishlegs found the book tucked away in the fireplace, practically in the fire. Hiccup had never noticed it before. He opened the book.

CHAPTER THE FIRST (AND LAST)

The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to …………

YELL

AT IT!

(The louder the better.)

THE END

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

By Prof: Yobbiash BA, MA Hons CANTAB,ETC

Big Axe Publications

10th Anniversary edition

Winner of the

BEST BOOK FOR BARBARIANS GOLD AWARD

‘THAT’S IT!’ said Hiccup furiously, turning the book upside down and shaking it, trying to see whether there was anything other than that single page of paper inside it. Hiccup put the book down. His face was unusually grim.

‘Ok, Fishlegs,’ he said, ’unless you’re any better at yelling than I am, we’re on our own. We’re going to have to work out our own method of dragon-training.’

1. If you are a coward in a Hooligan Tribe what does Hiccup think he could change his name to?

2. What fight did the boys agree to do?

3. Why do you think Hiccup thought axes were a bad idea?

4. Why did Snotlout wanted to have the fight after the Initiation Day?

5. Why did Snotlout think he would definitely win the fight? Explain in detail giving at least 3 points.

6. Where did Hiccup and Fishlegs go to look for the book that Gobber recommended?

7. What did Hiccup and Fishlegs see in the Great Hall?

8. How many chapters were there in the book (How to train your dragon) that Gobber recommended?

9. What was the Golden Rule that the author suggested in the book for training a dragon?

10. Why was Hiccup disappointed in the book that he found?

Wednesday - How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 5 p74-77

The next morning Hiccup checked the dragon under his bed. It was still asleep. When his mother. Valhallarama, asked him at breakfast, ‘How did Initiation go yesterday, dear?’ Hiccup said, ‘Oh, it was fine. I caught my dragon.’

‘That’s nice, dear,’Valhallarama replied vaguely. Stoick the Vast looked up briefly from his bowl and boomed, ‘EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT.’ Before getting back to the important task of shovelling food into his mouth. After breakfast, Hiccup went to sit on the front step beside his grandfather, who was smoking a pipe. It was a beautiful, cold clear winter’s morning, with not a breath of wind and the sea all around as flat as glass. Old Wrinkly blew out smoke rings contentedly as he watched the sun coming up. Hiccup shivered and chucked stones into the bracken. Neither of them spoke for a long time.

At last Hiccup said, ‘I got that dragon.’

‘I said you would, didn’t I?’ replied Old Wrinkly, very pleased with himself. Old Wrinkly had taken up soothsaying in his old age, mostly unsuccessfully. Looking into the future is a complicated business. So he was particularly pleased that he’d got this right.

‘Something extraordinary, you said,’ complained Hiccup. ‘A truly unusual dragon, you said. An animal that would really make me stand out in the crowd.’

‘Absolutely,’ agreed Old Wrinkly. ‘The entrails were undeniable.’

‘The only extraordinary thing about this dragon continued Hiccup, ‘is how extraordinarily SMALL it is. In that it is super-unusual. I’m even more of a laughing stock than ever.’

‘Oh dear,’ said Old Wrinkly, chuckling in a wheezy way over his pipe. Hiccup looked at him reproachfully. Old Wrinkly hurriedly turned the laugh into a cough.

‘Size is all relative, Hiccup,’ said Old Wrinkly. ‘ALL of these dragons are super-small compared to a real Sea Dragon. A REAL Sea Dragon is fifty times as big as that little creature. A real Sea Dragon from the bottom of the ocean can swallow ten large Viking ships in one gulp and not even notice. A real Sea Dragon is a cruel. Careless mystery like the mighty ocean itself, one moment calm as a scallop, the next raging like an octopus.’

‘Well here on Berk,’ said Hiccup, ‘Where we haven’t any Sea Dragons to compare anything with my dragon is just considerably smaller that everybody else’s. You are getting off the point,’

‘Am I?’ asked Old Wrinkly.

‘The point is, I just don’t see how I am ever going to become a Hero,’ said Hiccup gloomily. I am the least Heroic boy in the whole Hooligan Tribe.’

‘Oh pshaw, this ridiculous Tribe,’ fumed Old Wrinkly. ‘Ok so you are not what we call a born Hero. You are not big and tough and charismatic like Snotlout. But you’re going to have to work at it. You’re going to have to learn how to be a Hero the Hard Way.’ ‘Anyway,’ said Old Wrinkly, ‘it might be just what this Tribe needs, a change in leadership style, because the thing is, times are changing. We can’t get away with being bigger and more violent than everybody else any more. IMAGINATION. That’s what they need and what you’ve got. A hero of the Future is going to have to be clever and cunning, not just a big lump with overdeveloped muscles.

1. Where was Hiccup’s dragon sleeping?

2. What is Hiccup’s mother called?

3. What does the following sentence mean? ‘Old Wrinkly had taken up soothsaying in his old age, mostly unsuccessfully.’

4. Why did Hiccup say that he has become even more a laughing stock?

5. What does reproachfully mean?

6. How many times is the sea dragon bigger that the dragons that the boys have caught?

7. Why do you think Hiccup felt the Old Wrinkly was getting off the point?

8. What was Hiccup worried about?

9. Why doe Hiccup need to learn to become a hero the hard way?

10. What does Old Wrinkly suggest that the Hero of the future need to have?

Thursday - How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 5 p78-80

He’s going to have to stop everyone quarrelling among themselves and get them to face the enemy together.’

‘How am I going to persuade anybody to do anything?’ asked Hiccup. ‘They’ve started calling me HICCUP THE USELESS. That is not a great name for a Military Leader.’

‘You have to see the bigger picture, Hiccup,’ continued Old Wrinkly, ignoring him. ‘You’re called a few names. You’re not a natural at Bashyball. Who cares? These are very little problems in the grand scheme of things.’

‘It’s all very well for you to say they are little problems,’ said Hiccup crossly, ‘But I have a LOT of little problems. I have to train this super-small dragon in time for Thor’s day Thursday or be thrown out the Hairy Hooligan Tribe for ever.’

‘Ah yes,’ said Old Wrinkly, thoughtfully. ‘There’s a book on this subject, isn’t there? Remind me, how does the great Professor of Meathead University think you should train a dragon?’

‘He thinks you should yell at it,’ said Hiccup, gloomily chucking stones again.’ Show the beast who is Master by sheer charismatic force of your personality that sort of thing, I have about as much charisma as a stranded jellyfish and yelling is just another thing I am useless at.’

‘Ye-e-es.’ said Old Wrinkly, ‘but maybe you’ll have to Train Your Dragon the Hard Way. You know a very great deal about dragons, don’t you, Hiccup? All that Dragon-watching you’ve been doing over the years?’

‘That’s a secret,’ said Hiccup, uncomfortably. ‘I’ve seen you talking to them,’ said Old Wrinkly.

‘That’s NOT TRUE,’ protested Hiccup, going bright-red in the face.

OK, then,’ soothed Old Wrinkly, calmly smoking his pipe, ‘it’s not true.’ There was silence for a bit. It is true,’ admitted Hiccup, ‘but for Thor’s sake don’t tell anybody they wouldn’t understand.’

‘Talking to dragons is a highly unusual skill,’ said Old Wrinkly.

‘Maybe,’ said Old Wrinkly, ‘you can train a dragon better by talking to it, than by yelling at it.’

‘That’s sweet,’ said Hiccup’ and a very touching thought. However, a dragon is not a fluffy creature like a dog or a cat or a pony. A dragon is not going to do what you say just because you ask it pretty please. ‘I should say that yelling was a pretty good method.’

‘But it has its limitations, doesn’t it?’ Old Wrinkly pointed out. ‘I would say that yelling was highly effective on any dragon smaller than a sea-lion. And positively suicidal if you try it on anything larger. Why don’t you come up with some alternative training schemes yourself? You might be able to add something to Professor Yobbish’s book. I’ve often thought that that book needs a little something extra …………. I can’t quite put my finger on it ……’

‘WORDS,’ said Hiccup. ‘That book needs a lot more words.’

1. What is Hiccup called by the boys in the tribe?

2. What is Hiccup not good at naturally according to Old Wrinkly?

3. What is the little problem that Hiccup feels that he has?

4. Why does Hiccup feel that he cannot follow the Professor’s idea of training the dragon?

5. Why did Hiccup go bright red in the face when Old Wrinkly revealed his secret about Dragon watching?

6. What skill does Old Wrinkly suggest to Hiccup to train the dragon?

7. Why does Hiccup think talking to the dragons will not work?

8. What method does Hiccup think is a good method to train the dragon?

9. What limitations does yelling have according to Old Wrinkly?

10. What does Professor Yobbish’s book need according to Hiccup?

Friday – Non-fiction:

1. a) When do most carnivals take place?

b) Why do you think this time of the year is chosen?

2) The word brimming is in bold letters. What do you think this word means?

3) Where do they celebrate Mardi Gras and what is an important symbol of this carnival?

4) What is different about carnival season in Germany and other countries?

5) Where does the large parade in Rio actually take place?

6) Why do you think carnivals are so popular and attracts so many visitors?

7) Name and describe two different carnivals in Europe using your own words.

8) Imagine you have attended a carnival. Write down what you have seen, heard and experienced, giving as much detail as possible.

Maths Tasks

There are 5 different sets of questions for you to have a go at daily. There are also some times tables for you to have a go at too.

Times tables:

Afternoon task 1 – German from Mrs Lees

Fun with compound nouns

German is a very logical language. That's one of the things I love about it! You can put words together like Lego bricks to make compound nouns. If you know what the different parts mean, you can often work out the whole word. Here are some examples.

German word

Literal meaning

English meaning

Nashorn

nose horn

rhinoceros

Stinktier

stink animal

skunk

Flusspferd/Nilpferd

river horse/Nile horse

hippopotamus

Faultier

lazy animal

sloth

Erdmännchen

little earth man

meerkat

Nacktschnecke

naked snail

slug

Tintenfisch

ink fish

squid

Seestern

sea star

starfish

Eisbär

ice bear

polar bear

Creative compound words

Try putting together one word from the first column with another word from the second column to make a new compound noun, an imaginary creature. Write it and draw a picture showing meaning. Be creative! Eg: Wassermaus = ( would be a "watermouse") so you could draw a mouse creature that can live in water/swim. Try a few more and do the same. 

TOP TIP: when you put nouns together to make a compound noun, it becomes one word and only needs a capital letter at the START. I look forward to seeing your work on Seesaw. 

Eis (ice)

+ hund (dog)

Tinten (ink)

+ katze (cat)

Kaninchen (rabbit)

+ fisch (fish)

Vogel (bird)

+ pferd (horse)

See (sea)

+ maus (mouse)

Feuer (fire)

+ schwein (pig)

Wasser (water)

+ spinne (spider)

Afternoon task 2 – History – What was life like for Anglo-Saxons?

Can you use the following information to create a poster all about Anglo-Saxon life? Remember to include a title, subheadings, key facts and pictures.

Anglo-Saxon houses

The Anglo-Saxons didn’t like the stone houses and streets left by the Romans, so they built their own villages. They looked for land which had lots of natural resources like food, water and wood to build and heat their homes, and Britain’s forests had everything they needed. They surrounded each village with a high fence to protect cattle from wild animals like foxes and wolves, and to keep out their enemies, too!

We know what Anglo-Saxon houses were like from excavations of Anglo-Saxon villages. They were small wooden huts with a straw roof, and inside was just one room in which the whole family lived, ate, slept and socialised together – much like an ancient version of open-plan living! 

The biggest house in the village belonged to the chief, which was large enough to house him and all his warriors – and sometimes even the oxen, too! It was a long hall with a stone fire in the middle, and hunting trophies and battle armour hung from its walls. There were tiny windows and a hole in the roof to allow smoke to escape.

Anglo-Saxon place names

Many towns and villages still carry their Anglo-Saxon names today, including “England” which comes from the Saxon word “Angle-Land”.

Early Anglo-Saxon villages were named after the leader of the tribe so everyone knew who was in charge. If you’d visited Reading in Anglo-Saxon times, you’d have been in Redda’s village – Redda being the local chieftain.

The Anglo-Saxons settled in many different parts of the country – the Jutes ended up in Kent, the Angles in East Anglia, and the Saxons in parts of Essex, Wessex, Sussex and Middlesex (according to whether they lived East, West, South or in the middle!)

Not all Roman towns were abandoned, though. Some chiefs realised that a walled city made for a great fortress, so they built their wooden houses inside the walls of Roman towns like London.

Anglo-Saxon food

Perhaps one of our favourite Anglo-Saxon facts is how much they liked to party! They loved a good meal and would often host huge feasts in the chief’s hall. Meat was cooked on the fire and they ate bread, drank beer and sang songs long into the night!

They grew wheat, barley and oats for making bread and porridge, grew fruit and vegetables like carrots, parsnips and apples, and kept pigs, sheep and cattle for meat, wool and milk.

They were a very resourceful people – everything had its use and nothing went to waste. Animal fat could be used as oil for lamps, knife handles could be made out of deer antlers and even glue could be made from cows.

Anglo-Saxon clothes

Anglo-Saxons made their own clothes out of natural materials. The men wore long-sleeved tunics made of wool or linen, often decorated with a pattern. Their trousers were woollen and held up by a leather belt from which they could hang their tools such as knives and pouches. Shoes were usually made out of leather and fastened with laces or toggles.

The women would wear an under-dress of linen or wool and an outer-dress like a pinafore called a “peplos” which was held onto the underlayer by two brooches on the shoulders. Anglo-Saxon women loved a bit of bling and often wore beaded necklaces, bracelets and rings, too!

Anglo-Saxon gods

Many of today’s Christian traditions came from the Anglo-Saxons, but they weren’t always Christians. When they first came over from Europe they were Pagans, worshipping lots of different gods who they believed looked different parts of their life, such as family, crop growing, weather and even war.

The Anglo-Saxons would pray to the Pagan gods to give them good health, a plentiful harvest or success in battle.

It wasn’t until the Pope in Rome sent over a missionary – a monk called Augustine – to England in 597AD, that the Anglo-Saxons became Christians. Augustine convinced the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelbert of Kent to convert to Christianity and slowly the rest of the country followed suit. Pagan temples were turned into churches and more churches (built of wood) started popping up all over Britain.

Afternoon task 3 – Science

A classification key is one way to classify (sort) and name living things. When using a classification key to identify living things, we use yes/no questions. Can you complete the following classification keys by starting at the top and working your way down each branch? You can write the name in the blank boxes.

Afternoon task 4 – R.E.

The Qur’an is the Islamic holy book. Can you read the following information and fill in the gaps in the sentences below?

· The Qur'an is the holy book for Muslims just like the Bible is for Christians.

· It is written in Arabic.

· Muslims believe that no part of the Qur'an can be changed or re-written because it is the word of God and so it is perfect.

· Because Muslims believe the Quran IS the word of God they do the following to show their love and respect for it:

· They perform Wudu (a special way of washing themselves) which involves washing their hands, faces, arms and feet.

· Copies of the Qur’an are sometimes kept wrapped up in a cloth around it and they are always places on a high shelf in order to keep it safe and to show respect.

· They put it on a special stand like the one in the picture so that it doesn’t touch the floor as the floor can be a dirty place and sometimes even smelly!

This is the ______________________.

It should be treated with ___________________________.

Before reading, Muslims perform ____________________________, which means ________________________ their hands, faces, arms and feet.

The _____________________ should be:

1. ___________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________

Afternoon task 5 - PSHE